Lunar Lander Cargo Integration Lead (Spaceflight)

Blue Origin LLC; Washington; Vor Ort; USD 134.000 - 203.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

Stock options

Paid time off

Zusammenfassung

Blue Origin LLC in Washington state seeks an HDL Cargo Integration Lead to own the payload interface with the Lunar Surface Habitat and HDL. This role defines interfaces, leads analyses, and coordinates with NASA and external partners.

You will manage ICDs, payload environments, and integration milestones from kickoff to launch, ensuring safety, compliance, and on-time delivery within the MK2 and New Glenn programs.

Qualifikationen

• Experience performing payload integration on a spacecraft or launch vehicle.
• Experience with the Systems Engineering lifecycle (requirements, interface definition, verification, validation)
• Experience managing requirements and interface baselines, including negotiating ICDs
• Experience leading technical trades that balance performance, cost, and schedule
• Working knowledge of spaceflight environments and integrated analyses (loads, thermal, EMI/EMC)
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-organizational teams and external partners without direct reporting authority
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills, including presenting to senior leadership
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of integrity.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or an equivalent related field
• 8 or more years of experience

Aufgaben

• Negotiate, define, and deliver the payload interface control document (ICD)
• Define and communicate the payload design environments (launch and landing loads, thermal, vibration and shock, EMI/EMC, contamination), and lead integrated analyses with the provider, including coupled loads, thermal, and mass properties
• Define the payload integration milestones between contract kickoff and launch working with the Mission Manager
• Manage contract deliverables to and from the payload provider and to and from the NASA customer for the payload working with the Mission Manager
• Own interface verification: build the verification matrix, plan fit checks and pathfinder activities, and close out interface verification before shipment
• Oversee definition of the payload operations concept and integrate into the mission flight plan, including landing, surface offload, and payload commissioning
• Lead payload safety integration, including hazard analyses and safety reviews with the provider and NASA, and flow payload requirements into MK2 and New Glenn safety processes
• Plan payload delivery, receiving, ground processing, and launch-site integration, including transport, handling, Ground Support Equipment (GSE), vehicle closeout, facilities, and import logistics for foreign-built flight hardware undefined
• Work with Blue's Trade Compliance team to make sure every exchange of technical data and hardware with the international provider stays within approved export authorizations (for example, TAAs)
• Lead periodic reviews, Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), and recurring integration meetings with the payload provider and NASA, managing the exchange of technical information to advance the payload provider’s design.
• Identify, track, and burn down payload integration risks, and report integration status to MK2 and program leadership

Kenntnisse

payload integration

Systems engineering

requirements management

interface baselines

trade studies

spaceflight environments

cross-functional leadership

communication skills

integrity

engineering degree

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Jobbeschreibung

Blue Origin LLC in Washington state seeks an HDL Cargo Integration Lead to own the payload interface with the Lunar Surface Habitat and HDL. This role defines interfaces, leads analyses, and coordinates with NASA and external partners.

You will manage ICDs, payload environments, and integration milestones from kickoff to launch, ensuring safety, compliance, and on-time delivery within the MK2 and New Glenn programs.